David P. Currie

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David P. Currie (1936-2007) was the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, noted for his histories of the Constitution in Congress and the Supreme Court, and his casebooks on federal courts and conflicts of law. He was the son of legal scholar Brainerd Currie. His wife was Barbara Flynn Currie, Majority Leader of the Illinois House of Representatives.

Currie earned a B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1957, and a L.L.B. from Harvard Law School in 1960, where he served on the Harvard Law Review. After clerking for Judge Henry Friendly and then Justice Felix Frankfurter, he joined the Chicago Law faculty in 1962. His books include The Constitution in the Supreme Court: the First Hundred Years (1985), The Second Century (1990), and The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany (1994).